Selfishness Quotes

To love can mean 'to love oneself, ' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.

Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.

An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.

You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

Let us not be like the forest fox foraging for food for itself forever!Let us be like the assiduous ant, always accumulating ample assets for all ants with altruism and all-round assistance.

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant

To a vampire, there is only selfishness.

Selfishness Stops The Flow Of Blessings To You and Others

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.

Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune’s slings and arrows.

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.

More or less we are all Selfish. When it's come to Friendship, I do think that fish cant jump onto the ship!

Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn't make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don't do things your way. I care about me too.

You made me hate the person I was becoming—only because you wanted me to—and for that, you will never be forgiven.

How good is good enough, since you are only good for your selfishness.

I’m selfish.Selfish enough to want it all.And I know if I don’t have you . . .. . . I don’t have anything.

I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.

A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.

Paltry supply with capable means is one face of iniquity.

In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need.

Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.

Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of "being

Some people want what they are not willing to give.

Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.

In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.

A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?

Selfishness is a giant in destruction of relationships.

Everybody wants to be your friend when you have something that they want.

perturbed to put trust on people nowadays, people changes partner as per necessity. :(

As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin

[G]iving yourself some loving attention is not selfish. It is sensible. If you feel loved and cherished--even if it is only by yourself--then you will have more love to give to others, too. (83)

Just two choices on the shelf, pleasing God or pleasing self.

Each one of us is selfish, including me.

But selfish isn't necessarily a bad thing. It only means you take care of yourself and you have to do that to be able to take care of others.

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.

A man is nothing more than the things he does to get what he wants.

Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds. (91)

The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual.

Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good.

Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious. --The Changeling

It’s really good to love yourself, just don’t love yourself so much in a way that you will not be able to see anyone else!

The terrible poverty of pride is that there is nothing that can be taken in selfishness which will exceed what is received when nothing is expected and everything is offered.